Wednesday, March 9, 2016

“Moderate” Kasich Pledges To Restart Wars In the Middle East

A timely post about from http://www.vdare.com about Kasich and Middle Eastern Wars. This follows this post about Muslim immigration. This follows this article about American energy independence and preventing money from going to hostile countries. For more, you can read two very interesting books HERE.You can follow me here.

John Kasich is surging in most polls, with one even showing him leading in Michigan [Michigan, March 4-5, American ResearchGroup]
Though this is most likely an outlier, with just about every other poll
showing Trump in the lead, Kasich is unquestionably in the strongest
position he’s been in throughout the entire campaign. And while every
other candidate’s favorable ratings are plunging, Kasich’s are
increasing as he tries to stay above the fray.
But while Kasich was interpreted as having a strong debate showing on
Thursday, it’s hard to see how some his comments will help him in a
general election, especially when it comes to foreign policy. Kasich not
only came out for re-invading Iraq, but for interventions in Syria and
Libya.
Kasich noted Gaddafi should not have been overthrown. But then he said:

Fortunately in Libya, there’s only a few cities on the
coast, because most of Libya is a desert. The fact of the matter is, we
absolutely have to be [involvled], and not just with special forces. I
mean, that’s not going to work. Come on. You’ve got to go back to the
invasion when we pushed Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. We have to be
there on the ground in significant numbers. We do have to include our
Muslim Arab friends to work with us on that, and we have to be in the
air, and we, it should be a broad coalition, made up of the kinds of
people that were involved when we defeated Saddam. Now, you’ve got to be
on the ground and in the air both in Syria and Iraq.
[The Fox News GOP debate transcript, annotated, Washington Post, March 3, 2016]

Who exactly are our “Muslim Arab friends?” Everywhere we go, they
seem to stick around just long enough to accept aid and weapons and then
turn on us.
In contrast, Trump has appointed Jeff Sessions to be his chief
national security advisor advisor. And the first thing Sessions did is
pour cold water on any new crusade to remake the Middle East.

“We need to understand the limits of our ability to
intervene successfully in other nations,” Sessions said in a statement.
“It is time for a healthy dose of foreign policy realism. In the Middle
East, this means forming partnerships based on shared interests, not
merely overthrowing regimes in the dangerous attempt to plant
democracies.”
[Trump Taps Jeff Sessions As Chief National Security Advisor, by Jonah Shepp, New York, March 3, 2016]

In the current American political climate, vowing new wars and
interventions that will kill thousands makes you a sensible “moderate,”
supported by people of good will. In contrast, if you are a foreign
policy realist and believe the best way to stop terrorism is by
controlling immigration, you are a crazy lunatic.
Do GOP voters still believe this nonsense? We’ll find out!